'80s Style: Designs of The Decade' softback by Albrecht Banger with forward by Ettorre Sottsass 1990.
80s Style offers a sparkling, invaluable view of the 'design decade', selecting the most important works from leading designers all over the world. This stimulating collection - covering furniture, lighting and tableware, textiles and product designs - shows every major development from Memphis to the deconstructivism of Coop Himmelblau, from the elegant sophistication of Philippe Stack to the Deco revivalism of Michael Graves, in 400 color illustrations. Ettore Sottsass contributes the foreword. The selection of the most dynamic and significant designs produced in the eighties, by German design writers Albrecht Bangert and Karl Michael Armer, makes this an authoritative and inspiring guide for designers, architects, and a public conscious of style as never before.
Fully illustrated, tons of photographs of the crazy shit. A great resource for any design library. Jacket shows some scuffs and bumps with minor crease.
